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fiber babble welcome december 15 2023 i want to get back to blogging really i do but life you know i m still quilting in fact i m a guild president in these parts not knitting hardly at all since i broke my elbow in january of 2022 and ended up with partially numb fingers i ve also started slowly very slowly sewing my own clothes tops for now but each time i make one it fits better than the one before i started after i broke my elbow there was a significant weight gain so i made some fluffy tops now almost 2 years later i just call them tops permalink 0 folks clicked here to comment december 11 2023 the googs tells me that my blogger blogs are gonna go poof if they haven t seen any action for forever this blog definitely falls into that category so here s a post to hopefully keep the blog alive seriously what stopped me from posting even semi regularly is the breakup between my photobucket photos and google i ve even been paying every single month for years to keep my photobucket account intact but the task of migrating everything somewhere else and then repopulating the blog posts is beyond overwhelming you d think with all that free time i had during shutdown i could have done something but tbh every day turned into oh i can do that tomorrow permalink 0 folks clicked here to comment a very expensive bridge july 10 2015 just about this time last year i wrote a blog post about why i don t make quilts to sell i currently have three projects that are due this fall one each in september october and november the october one is a wedding gift the november one is a miniature with all the pieces and techniques of a big quilt but in teeny tiny pieces and the september one that s the one i m here to talk about the september quilt is an art piece to be entered into a local ish quilt show the size must be 20x28 the theme is build a bridge the prize is a pretty ribbon and bragging rights that s all i had a lot of problems finding my inspiration in the theme i spent hours days looking at pictures of bridges trestle suspension fairy natural then branching out into other media stained glass shadows linework it s okay if you don t know what they are i asked for suggestions from people i trust and read poetry and short fiction and went down many many rabbit holes okay i was being ingenuous when i said i spent hours days i spent weeks looking for inspiration and then trying to mold that inspiration into something that could be rendered in fabric once i finally found the right fit for my creative brain and capabilities the real work began hint i m not drawing a bridge i had to do a basic drawing both with pencil on paper and mouse on screen a whole lot of math was involved what size should this section be how can i get 17 motifs evenly and pleasantly distributed that answer is i can t from first drawing to where i am now hand drawn finalised real sized drawing and an accurate reverse image it has taken me approximately 12 hours 12 hours of drawing measuring moving erasing printing taping drawing some more and i haven t even touched fabric yet i m not creating this as a pattern for sale or a class to teach i m creating is because it interests me and stretches my brain but if i were planning to sell the pattern or if i were designing this as a finished piece to be sold at this stage already i have spent conservatively 30 hours at 10 hour not much above minimum wage in my state that s 300 and as i mentioned before i am a skilled experienced quilter my hourly rate should be higher than just above minimum wage wait i shouldn t be counting the hours of looking at bridge pictures and doodling on paper and reading poetry and it s research isn t it it s something that i am doing specifically for this project so it should count i say a journalist gets paid for research not just a story scientific types get paid for research not just the cure for cancer if this were a paying gig yes i get paid yesterday while cutting fabric for a customer at the fabric store she mentioned that someone had asked her to make two king sized seahawks quilts she told them okay but it ll cost at least 150 each i nearly jumped over the cutting counter i explained to her what i ve just laid out for you dear readers when i got to the part about minimum wage i asked her if she could get a king sized quilt done from design to binding in 15 hours of course the answer was no hopefully i got the little hamsters running on the wheel in her head and she begins to value her work more realistically i m sure trying to be more mindful of my time and value labels babble quilting permalink 1 folks clicked here to comment dollies not doilies may 23 2015 well wouldja look at that another ufo finished this one is probably 5 years old pieced by my friend pam as a sample for the shop once it had done its time as a display i had that audacity gasp me no to ask if i could have it since it wasn t pam s preferred style and really not mine either and that s why i didn t make one myself she didn t even bat an eye when she handed it over to me then as i m sure many of you predicted it sat in a corndog box for a few years before i decided to quilt it the straight line quilting was actually more difficult for me to do than the free form feathers in the borders but i m on a feather kick right now so maybe that makes the difference the binding though i had some lovely sharp corners on this wallhanging then i washed it and the binding fabric shrunk more than the body fabric that doesn t happen often and i am very happy for that bindings aren t hard but they re fiddly if you are like me and want picture perfect sharp mitres at the corners i guess i should have taken a picture those corners before washing yeah there s a riveting blog post but this is luckily the first time and hopefully the last that the shrinkage completely distorted the corners if i can find some space on the walls in the guest room i ll probably hang it there labels quilting permalink 0 folks clicked here to comment the mysterious corn dog march 18 2015 all the time soulless by gail carriger okay the title is a bit of a stretch but better than a corn dog box project and a mystery quilt right this is kind of a throwback post i found it in my drafts folder quilt retreat is coming up in about 6 weeks and these pictures and thoughts are from last year s retreat let s call it a bonus post mmm kay last year at retreat i put the final borders on the oh christmas tree quilt one of the first corn dog box projects i grabbed for my 2014 new year s resolution i ve realized that a lot of my projects get stalled at the border stage i wonder if it s because all the hard work is done maybe borders bore me i don t know but there are a couple few more projects that are ready to quilt except for borders i already have the backing fabric purchased so all i have to do is baste and quilt it now like that s going to happen any time soon aaaaaand the mystery part i designed a day at the zoo as a mystery quilt for the new year s day 2013 class probably only the second quilt i ve ever designed without triangles it was a big hit at the class all of the quilts finished in the mystery class were stunning and the quilters really worked some magic with their fabric choices also it was actually finished in one day everyone arrived with pre cut strips what a great kit to cut and take to retreat right i was able to pull all of the necessary fabrics from my closet yay the kit fit perfectly into a corn dog box after less than a day of sewing i had the body done but though i had time i waited until the next day to put the borders on yes i think there s something to my border aversion anyhoo here it is in all its blurry glory it was a lovely and easy pattern even if i do say so myself with nice big pieces and almost no seam matching if i were ambitious i d go find the quilt top because of course it s still just a top and take a better picture i m not hmmm i think this might be the next pattern i publish labels quilting permalink 1 folks clicked here to comment look labels stitchery quilting of course sewing but not quilting aprons babble includes rants blogging ups and downs charity crafting general crafting adventures in felting holidaze the ubiquitous intro knitting machine fun knitting mostly by hand these posts might change your life expectations rules of gift giving laundry psa the gravity of a properly fitted bra view all the last time i was cute click the pic to visit my blogger profile where i hang out visit me at google plus previous posts i want to get back to blogging really i do but li the googs tells me that my blogger blogs are gonna a very expensive bridge dollies not doilies the mysterious corn dog my kind of doily yummy ish why i don t make quilts to sell sharp as a marshmallow i retreated archives february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 november 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 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